Open AccessSqueezing for healing
Author(s) -
William A. Wells
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
the journal of cell biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.414
H-Index - 380
eISSN - 1540-8140
pISSN - 0021-9525
DOI - 10.1083/jcb1561iti5
Subject(s) - myofibroblast , biology , wound healing , chemokine , microbiology and biotechnology , inflammation , pathology , immunology , fibrosis , medicine
![][1] Wounds treated with cCAF (right) heal faster.Achicken chemokine can help heal wounds by inducing fibroblasts to become myofibroblasts, according to results reported by Feugate et al. on [page 161][2]. The contractile myofibroblasts help close the wound by pulling together the
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